Objective. To explain and underscore the use of principal component analysis in clinical
biomechanics as an expedient, unbiased means for reducing high-dimensional data sets to a …

Falling poses a major threat to the steadily growing population of the elderly in modern-day
society. A major challenge in the prevention of falls is the identification of individuals who are …

… (e g ), propelling efficiency (e p ), and power output (P o ) according to: Based on the …
power output (P o ) is important since improvement in performance is related to increased P o . …

This article examines the status of dynamical models of movement coordination qua
phenomenological models. After a brief outline of the aims, methods and strategic assumptions of …

… Hence, the variability of the global pattern was smaller in the LBP group than in the control
group at the comfortable velocity (left LES t=3.9, P<0.01, and right LES t=3.3, P<0.01) as well …

… for the six dependent posturographic measures (ie, interindividual means corresponding
to the main effects of vision and dual task, collapsed over x and y time-series, as well as F, P …

… Note that, apart from only H for original and phase-randomized surrogate data (P>0.05),
original, phase-randomized and shuffled surrogates all differed significantly from each other (P<…

… Effect sizes for main and interaction effects are reported as partial eta squared (ε p 2 ). Besides
significant effects (P < 0.05), also tendencies towards significance (P < 0.10) are reported …

… (P=0.06), significantly higher perturbation forces (P<0.05), and significantly slower movements
away from the attractor (P… gait pattern was significantly slower (P<0.05) when walking with …

… , two-tailed post hoct tests were performed (P < 0.05). Separate analyses were performed
for … Post hoct tests showed significantly (P < 0.05) higher values for velocities of 3.8 km/h …